h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hello Angel

I want to wish you happiness and contentment in your new life.

I cannot believe you will ever leave Poetry Corner because I think for you as for most of us there it is deep in your heart.

all love

the dazzler

Hello Dazzler,

You are a subtle one, leaving this message under the journies poems

Thank you very much for your good wishes, it's heart-warming to get your message. I hope very much that I won't be missing you because by hook or by crook I'll get hold of a laptop and a broadband connection, so the (what is the silk road equivalent for India?? curry road?) well anyway, that thread won't be broken. Funny thing, the poetry corner, the creativity is a great buzz, but it's really the poets that make it alive. I'm a nomad by nature and like the packing up and going, no regrets, but this time there are a couple of pangs, things I don't want to leave behind, one is Winnie (I think you know she's really my hairy hound friend), but she'll take good care of my Mum whilst I'm away, so I'm only being selfish there, and the other is the Poetry Corner. It's been less than the sum of its parts when you've been quiet on it, but I know you've had other more important things to consider.

I'm scurrying around now, cleaning and putting breakables out of reach so sis and kids can come and stay whilst we're away (they always use the house in the summer for a week near the beach), and sorting out warm clothes (it's colder in Bangalore than it is here!!), and then I'll be on the plane at 2:30 pm on Thursday. Mike's already left, and when I get there I'll start viewing apartments. Maybe I'll take up yoga, do you think it might improve my haikus?

Love to you and Muffin, and thanks again for your the lovely surprise of your message

There's no need for improvement and yoga could only tie you in knots

dids is off on holiday so I'll keep the Poetry fort manned.

love,

the dazzler

Hallo!

You saucy minx, angelic, putting all our stuff up here! Wish a few more people had come along and admired it all. good luck in India and do please stay in touch poetry coner will mourn the loss of you.

Cross your fingers, shhhhh! I'm in at last! I used to be called didyouever.

How are you?

Hello, hello, hello!

I don't know, I spent hours putting in all those links to the history pages and then the BBC goes and moves half of them (forehead slap!!), don't know if I have the patience to back and reassign them all.

Congrats at getting set up - very pleased

See you around again soon

You will

Are you squandering the royalties dids?

Hello Angel,

The magic carpet is in at the drycleaners so I can't pop in but have been thinking of you lately. There has been much fighting on Poetry Corner this week so much so that I long for the old days when people got along.
Got some busying things ahead of me this week so must fly using the
maid's magic carpet you understand. Whoooosh

Hey Dazzler,

Good belly dancing laugh at your flying visit

A rumpus in the Poetry Corner? Oh no... May take a peek through my fingers at it but not sure if I really want to...

Have been thinking of you, Rose and Dids too over the last few days and wishing I was better organised and managing the time zone thing better. Not that a single poem has come to me for at least four weeks But I do keep thinking of popping in for a good read - and then thoughts like what do you make with jaggery, bitter gourds and gram flour and perhaps I should just cheat and see if I can buy some pasta somewhere overcome me again. Took two days to find a shop that sold brollies (oh for Woolworths!) Have just this morning started writing a story though, only slightly interrupted by a neurotic compulsion to google dengue fever symptoms.

Am really having a whale of a time though. Everyone lovely and on the back on reams of advice have got a trip planned into the jungle and hope to see elephants and tigers but will settle for anything that moves and a large beer. And going to stay in a 90 foot up treehouse in a hill station (got my anti-leech galoshes and mosquito net) - you don't get vertigo when you're asleep, do you?

Rumours of being able to buy Marmite here are greatly exaggerated - please send a dozen jars post haste - I plan to demonstrate that we Brits are not so lily-livered after all with a curry vs Marmite tasting session.

How are you and Muffin?

Thanks for staying in touch

Dear Angelicwinnie,it is lovely to read your voice again. Whilst you are all the way out there, why don't you do an h2g2 journal???????? I am doing one too but it is not very interesting. Whereas you must have plenty of scope........enjoy

Freda People (formerly known as didyouever)

Hello Gorgeous Fred!

Read your journal with interest, do keep it up when you find a spare pocket of time. I've long since stopped being bothered about the nothing new under the sun little problem - it's not what we say but how we say it and everyone's lives are unique and that always comes through. Discussing plot ideas with my mother, who appears to have read every book written since the invention of the printing press, had to be abandoned for the sake of morale ("Ah yes, so-and-so used that in such-and-such) but reading drafts is all right ("It doesn't matter that so-and-so used that in such-and-such because the way you treat it is not the same" - encouragement maybe just audible in the faint praise but it's enough and I need hard critics to stop me going soft).

So and keep going

For angel who needs marmite

In reply to your question you don't get vertigo in tree houses in the jungle the answer is: Well I haven't thought of one yet, nor why there is no marmite in the jungle. Have the marmosets eaten it all, ?

As for vertigo I would imagine if you fall out screaming I am falling quick, I'm giddy and spiralling down, catch me, I'm about to faint, then the answer could well be yes.

Hee's me thinking of marmite and vertigo in descending order,
loved your cameo appearance on Poetry Corner
may your marigolds bloom forever.
btw. it's comedy this weekend on PC.
much love, the dazzler